Just Married 2019 Letter

[summerdayghost]

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Hi! My decision to participate in this exchange was super last second (or last second by my standards). I decided it couldn’t hurt so why not? Let’s see, my AO3 is also summerdayghost and if you have any questions or need anything clarified don’t be afraid to contact me through the mod. I won’t address every free form tag in my prompts because I feel that some of them speak for themselves. I hope you have a lovely exchange.

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Terrible people in love
Drifters
Violence
Blood
Bruises
Fluff with disturbing subtext
Horror presented as fluff
Straight up horror
Straight up tooth rotting fluff
Fridge horror
Roadtrips
Character study
Guilt
Casefic
Begging
Taunting/Teasing
Dirty talk
Internal Conflict
Villain AUs
Historical AUs
Complicated and/or messed up relationships
Being brought over to the dark side
Fake relationships becoming real relationships
Dramatic irony
Manipulative relationships
Dubcon/noncon
Enthusiastic consent
Dark comedy
Secrets
Dirtybadwrong
Power dynamics
Power imbalance
Mentor/protégé
Grand gestures (both of the poorly and well received variety)
Oral sex
Frottage
Riding
Roleplay (the more tongue and cheek while also kinda sincere the better)
Characters being put on pedestals they can’t live up to
Frantic fully clothed take me now sex
Slow deliberate love making
Possessive sex
Cuddling
Hopelessly in love
Dorks in love

DNWs
Recreational drug use (alcohol and cigarettes are fine as are depictions of drug addiction)
Watersports/scat
Bestiality
Unrequested ship content
Unrequested trans headcanons
Mpreg
a/b/o

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)

Buffy Summers/Kendra Young

Tags: "We Could Be Dead Tomorrow So Let's Get Married Today", Bad Guys Made Them Get Married, Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress, Blurting Out Proposal Unplanned, First Time Living Together/Moving In Together After Wedding, Forced Marriage Leads to Genuine Feelings, Future Arranged Spouses are Forbidden To Meet But Able To Study One Another's Hobbies, Improvised Unofficial Wedding Ceremonies, Marriage Is Sealed with Blood Drinking, Marrying for a prophecy, Teenage Marriage, Time Travel Backward To Fix The Past Also Results In Unexpectedly Getting Married, Trapped In Fake Perfect World That Includes Marriage They Don't Believe They Can Ever Really Have

One direction you could go marriage at the hands of the Watcher’s Council. Maybe there was a prophecy that demanded it or an old obscure rule written that in the event of two slayers at the same time they must be married. Maybe it was just cause. I’ll leave the reasons up to you and whatever works best for your story. “Future Arranged Spouses are Forbidden To Meet But Able To Study One Another's Hobbies” is a tag I think would work beautifully with this specific pairing under these circumstances, especially if you go into what this causes them to assume about one another. I like the idea of this marriage starting out as just another part of being a slayer they have to go through but then they end up falling for each other.

A different direction you could go with this would be them being forced to marry by vampires or demons. This specific circumstance is why I have the “Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress” and “Marriage Is Sealed with Blood Drinking” tags but if you wanna use them without going for this specific prompt feel free because they’re great. Just them getting married under horrific circumstances that are really more of a demonic parody of marriage than anything else and then falling for each other for real afterwards. Or if the reason they are having a demon wedding is that they’ve have joined the side of darkness (either becoming vampires themselves or just defecting or whatever) that could also be rad.

A third direction you could go is a spur of the moment “I love you let’s get married right now” type of thing that’s spontaneous and passionate and romantic and sweet. I can see Buffy proposing that way but it also works for me if it’s Kendra’s idea. That type of wedding for them would make me smile. Also the fallout of a sudden marriage on their lives and amongst their friends and the Watcher’s Council could be fun.

If you go with “Time Travel Backward To Fix The Past Also Results In Unexpectedly Getting Married” then maybe Buffy uses the time travel to save Kendra’s life and then when she’s back in the modern day she discovers that she married Kendra and has to adjust to that being her life now. Either that or Buffy has to relive her life from the point of divergence and she ends up close to Kendra in ways she didn’t expect and they end up married.

I just had to have the “Trapped In Fake Perfect World That Includes Marriage They Don't Believe They Can Ever Really Have” tag because that feels like it would be the plot of an actual episode. Which one ends up in the fake perfect world is up to you, but I will admit that when I go through this scenario in my head more often than not it’s Kendra. Bonus points if the relationship is the one part of the perfect world that would be attainable in the real world even if they don’t realize it.

Greek and Roman Mythology

Achilles/Troilus

Tags: Dealing with In-Law(s), Divine Decree That They Must Wed, Drawbacks of marrying a God, Forced To Marry Rapist, Marriage only means of saving one's homeland, Marriage to keep enemy under your control, Married at first sight because the Gods deem it so, Marrying for a prophecy, Political marriage that makes everything worse, political marriage where one partner is under orders to kill their spouse, Proposal Recipient misunderstands due to cultural differences, Slice of Married Life During Wartime, Visions of Alternate Timeline Where Impossible Marriage Happens/Works Out

I’m imagining this as some probably misguided attempt to put an end to the Trojan War whether it be at the hands of the Trojan royal family or the Greek military leaders or the gods themselves. This could also totally be an offensive move to advance the war a la “I just married your youngest prince/mightiest warrior, your move Trojans/Greeks” and that could be interesting.

For the “Dealing with In-Law(s)” tag I’m mostly thinking of Achilles having to interact with Hector in this context or Troilus having to interact with Thetis in this context because that could be great. Also for the “political marriage where one partner is under orders to kill their spouse” tag maybe Hector could be using this marriage as a way to plot Achilles’s assassination.

I included the “Visions of Alternate Timeline Where Impossible Marriage Happens/Works Out” tag because Troilus certainly has a connection to Apollo (even if the strength and exact nature of that connection is ambiguous to us in the modern day) and Apollo is connected with prophecies and psychics and oracles. So maybe Troilus could be having visions of this sort because that’s what his “gift” of sight allows him to see. Cue him responding to these visions however you see fit. Whether it really is an alternate timeline or Troilus just assumes it is and then it actually happens is up to you.

As for the “Drawbacks of marrying a God” tag, I know Achilles isn’t a god, but I figured he was close enough for the purposes of using that tag.

Star Trek: The Original Series

T’Pring/Nyota Uhura

Tags: Alien Marriage Traditions, Clash of customs/culture around wedding/marriage, Friends and family being way too involved in wedding planning, Proposal Recipient misunderstands due to cultural differences, Wedding Fluff, Wedding Night, Wedding traditions, Wedding Rituals

I really, really love the idea of these two together. My needs here are pretty simple. I just want a story about their human Vulcan wedding. Do they go more towards human traditions or Vulcan ones? Do they manage to strike a balance? What was the proposal like? The “Friends and family being way too involved in wedding planning” tag is there for the crew of the Enterprise just getting really into this wedding and possibly too enthusiastic. If you wanna set this in the Mirrorverse I’d be down.